JUEVES - LYRICS ("It’s a sin – Pet Shop Boys")

- It’s a sin – Pet Shop Boys

When I look back upon my life

It's always with a sense of shame.

I've always been the one to blame.

For everything I long to do

no matter when or where or who

has one thing in common, too.

It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin.

It's a sin.

Everything I've ever done,

everything I ever do,

every place I've ever been,

everywhere I'm going to

it's a sin.

At school they taught me how to be

so pure in thought and word and deed.

They didn't quite succeed.

For everything I long to do

no matter when or where or who

has one thing in common, too.

It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin.

It's a sin.

Everything I've ever done,

everything I ever do,

every place I've ever been,

everywhere I'm going to

It's a sin.

Father, forgive me.

I tried not to do it.

Turned over a new leaf,

then tore right through it.

Whatever you taught me

I didn't believe it.

Father, you fought me

'cause I didn't care

and I still don't understand.

So I look back upon my life,

forever with a sense of shame.

I've always been the one to blame.

For everything I long to do

no matter when or where or who

has one thing in common, too.

It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin.

It's a sin.

Everything I've ever done,

everything I ever do,

every place I've ever been,

everywhere I'm going to

It's a sin.

It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin.

It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin.

- Notas: El cantante estudió en el Curthbert’s High School de Newscastle, colegio religioso donde recibió una estricta educación cristina de acuerdo con lo cual todo era pecado. Cualquier cosa que pudiese ser placentera era considerada pecaminosa, lo que dejó una gran huella en el cantante. Según algunos el tema que subyace en la canción es la homosexualidad del cantante, de la que ya era consciente durante el tiempo que pasó en esta institución educativa, y el problema moral que esto le causaba. De ahí ese “sense of shame” del que habla, sobre todo al acudir a lugares de ambiente gay (por ello lo de “everywhere I’m going to it’s a sin”).

- 1. “…long …” = Si bien “long” se usa para indicar que algo es “largo”, como verbo se usa para hablar de anhelar, echar de menos o desear algo que no se tiene y que quizás nunca se pueda obtener.

- 2. “…Turned over a new leaf …” = Es el equivalente en ingles de “girar pagina” para hablar de dejar algo atrás y empezar una nueva vida.
- 3. “…tore right through it …” = Sería algo cercano “ rasgar de parte a parte” esa página que acaba de girar. Es decir, quiere indicar que apenas hace propósito de cambiar de vida y se convence de que va a dejar atrás esos “sins”, inmediatamente rompe sus propósitos y vuelve a incurrir en los mismos pecados.